Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1887-12-15
photographic NEWS.

The senate was deluged with over 500
new bills.
The epidemic Of measles is subsiding
at Red Wing.
A winter carnival association has been
started at Yankton.
The shipments of fractional silver coin
since Dec. l, amount to $2SS, ,263.
Banker Harper, of the broken Fidelity
bank, is in the Ohio pcnitentiary
The putting in of 800, 900 water-works
is being agitated at st. Peter, MINI.
The house elected it's own committee
on elections at Speaker Carlisle's request.
The fisheries negotiators visited Mount
Vernon, as the guests of Secretary Bay
ard.
Statements of building operations in
Winona, Mimi, shows the expenditure
Of over 81 900, 900 the past season.
The duke of Norfolk, who will convey
to the pope the congratulations of the
queen and Lord Salisbury on his jubilee,
has started for Rome.
The convent of Mercy, at Morris, Mimi,
under Mother Joseph, is, finished, and an
Indian department, under government
patronage, is to be started up soon.
The issue of standard silver dollars
during the week ending Dec. 10, was
$721, ,0S1. The issue during the CORE
spending period of last year was $62G, ,O19.
Colby, one of the parties arrested at
Redfeld, D. T., for stealing wheat, has
turned states evidence and implicated C.
L. Eaton and A. G. Tutsome in the deal
1t is regarded as settled that the tax
of $50, 000,O 900 on tobacco will be removed
as soon as the house can reach it, be-
cause large majority of the senate fav-
ors it.
Despite the decision of the federal court
at Galveston, Tex, against the validit.
of the state law tax on drummers, the
state authorities declare they will en-
force it.
1t is said negotiations are pending be-
tween this country and Mexico to pro-
vide for an international coin Or silver
certificate exchange between the two
countries.
A Paris dispatch says the Investigating
Judges will give q decision in the case of
NJ. Wilson dismissing the matter on the
ground that no otfense against the laws
had been committed
Edward Corrigan, the turfman, Mon
day assaulted DR.. Munford, of the Kansas
City Times at Kansas City In the after
noon Munford, with a revolver, was look
ing for his assailant.
The effects of the ST. Cloud Tribune
were turned over to a trustee pursuant to
an order Of the court. This is the result
of lawsuit between Editor Brewer and
his brother, J. C. Brewer.
The Allan Line Steamship company
deny the report that their steamers will
cease to go to Canadian ports and that
Baltimore will become their stopping
place on the American side.
Lectures have been suspended at the
Moscow university, owing to fracas be-
tween students and troops, one student
having been killed The students
objected to some new imperial rules.
W. w. Erwin, of St. Paul, and G. w.
Argo, Of Lemars, who defended John
Arensdorf, charged with the murder of
Rev. Haddock, were presented with gold
headed canes Monday ''by the business
men of Sioux City,
Joseph Francis, of Saltwater, was
frozen to death at Isaac Staples lumber
camp on Ann river. Francis had been
sent to the village for a stock of supplies
on Dec. g. and last Saturday his body was
found by two Indians.
For the four months ending October,
the output of the Homestakc mine at
Deadwood was S3O6, ,949; the Dead-Terra,
S242,9 ,9OG. The Homestake has paid one
third of its outputas dividend, and the
Terra 33384 per cent. of its output
Total values Of the exports of domestic
breadstuffs for November, 1887, SO, $685.
703; November, 1886, $12, $685. ,S41. Five
months, ended November 80, 1887, $685.
3G0,S12; same period in 1886, S65, 215 109;
eleven months, ended November 30, 1887,
14S,O19,641; same period in 1886, $780,
077,644.